University
of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-1200
907-474-7505Description: Prehistoric exhibits include
fossils, the remains of an Alaska steppe bison, and the partial remains
of a 21,000 year old mammoth.

Cabazon Dinosaurs
50900 Seminole Dr
Cabazon, CA 92230
(951) 922-8811Description: Famous American roadside
attraction featuring two bigger-than-life concrete dinosaurs. Both
beasts, the 150 foot-long Brontosaurus, and the 65 foot-tall T-Rex have
connecting stairs which lead into the giants. "Dinny," the
Brontosaurus, houses a small museum and in his belly.

California Academy
of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco CA
94118
415-379-8000 Description: Exhibits include
Deinonychus and Diatryma. The academy also features a Planetarium.

Museum of
Paleontology, University of California
3 Earth Sciences Building
Berkeley, California 94720
510-642-1821Description: Dinosaur
collection features an exceptional cast of a duck-billed dinosaur.
Other features include fossil remains of an Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur.

The Page Museum & La Brea Tar Pits
5801 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 857-6300, ext. 110Description: Paleontologist Chester Stock and businessman George C. Page never met, but they had the same vision: a museum that could display ancient treasures at the very site they were discovered.

San Diego Natural History
Museum
1788 El Prado, Balboa Park
P.O. Box 1390
San Diego, California 92112
619-232-3821Description: A Nodosaurus and a full Allosaurus
reconstruction are featured at the museum.

Colorado

Best Western Denver Southwest
3440 South Vance Street
Denver, Colorado 80227
303-989-5500Description: Some of the most impressive dinosaur heritage sites in the world are a ten minute drive from the hotel. Stegosaurus is our local rock star, the very first one ever discovered was dug up nearby.

Garden Park
Fossil Area & Dinosaur Discovery Center
North of Cañon City, Colorado
Garden Park Paleontology Society
P.O. Box 313,Cañon City, Colorado 81215-0313
719-275-2331
Bureau of Land Management: 719-275-0631
Direct Route: Located on County Highway 9 about eight miles north of
Cañon City, CO.Description: Roadside monument to the famous
discoveries of the 1870's. The Garden Park Area is the oldest dinosaur
quarry in the U.S. Many fossils remain in the area, as possible new
discoveries to be excavated. The Visitors Center, planned for opening
in March of 1995, will house a Stegosaurus skeleton discovered from
this historical site. The planned Discovery Center will provide even
more exiting educational opportunities for visitors. For volunteer and
membership info please write to address above.

Purgatoire River Area
Purgatoire River, ColoradoDescription: The world's longest continuous mapped
trackway of dinosaur footprints is located in an area along the
Purgatoire River. A few of the suspected dinosaurs leaving the prints
are Iguanodon, Coelurus, Apatosaurus, and Triceratops.

Connecticut

The Peabody Museum
of Natural History
Yale University
170 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8118
203-432-5050Description: Many dinosaur skeletons including a
Deinonychus, Apatosaurus, Camptosaurus and Stegosaurus.

Delaware Museum of Natural History
4840 Kennett Pike (Route 52)
Wilmington, DE 19807
302-658-9111Description: Tuojiangosaurus and Yangchuanosaurus, represent Asian relatives of the familiar North American dinosaurs, Stegosaurus and Allosaurus, respectively. A Parasaurolophus head and Archaeopteryx are also on display

Washington, D.C.

National Museum of
Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Tenth Street and Constitution Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20560
202-357-2700Description: Full-scale realistic model of a
Triceratops, and several additional dinosaur displays including a
Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, and the longest- known dinosaur, the
Diplodocus. Insect zoo, films, lectures and other special events.

Dinosaur World
5145 Harvey Tew Road
Plant City, FL 33565
813-717-9865Description: Over 150 scientifically accurate,
lifelike dinosaurs in a lush subtropical jungle for visitor viewing.
Dinosaur World also offers a museum, outdoor classroom, and picnic
areas. The park is open every day of the year from September to January. Group discounts and special programs available.

Universe of Energy
Walt Disney World
P.O. Box 10,000
Lake Buena Vista, Florida 32830
407-824-4321Description: The Universe of
Energy brings the distant past to life with several robotic dinosaurs
in a realistic and dramatic surrounding. The exhibit's main focus is on
the natural creation of fossil fuels, and their use.

Fernbank
Museum of Natural History
767 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
404-929-6300Description: The Giants
of the Mesozoic exhibit features the carnivorous Gigantosaurus, which
rivaled the T. rex in size, as well as the Argentinosaurus, the 100-ton
sauropod that scientists say is the largest dinosaur ever classified.

Illinois

Field Museum of Natural
History
1200 S. Lakeshore Dr.
Chicago, Illinois 60605
312-922-9410Description: Dinosaur displays include a
splendid Albertosaurus skeleton, a Lambeosaurus, and an eighty-foot
long Apatosaurus skeleton.

Indiana

Joseph
Moore Museum
Earlham College
Richmond, Indiana 47374
765-983-1303Description: Prehistoric displays include the
most complete known giant beaver skeleton and a Mastodon. Dinosaur
fossils, Egyptian mummy and live snakes are other attractions.

Fick Museum
700 W. Third
Oakley, Kansas 67748
785-671-4839Description: The museum has a number of interesting large dinosaur fossils from Kansas, many old tools, mineral specimens, and shell & mineral folk art.

Johnston Geology Museum
Emporia State University
Cram Science Hall
14th and Merchant St.
Emporia, Kansas 66801
620-341-5330Description: The museum is free, and open whenever the school is in session and the building is unlocked. Most of the items exhibited in the museum were collected in Kansas.

Keystone Gallery
401 US 83
(near Monument Rocks)
Scott City, KS 67871
620-872-2762Description: The Bonner family has been fossil hunting since 1928 and are available to lead fossil hunting & camping tours in a 1949 Chevy Suburban.

The
Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Fort Hays State University
3000 Sternberg Drive
Hays, KS 67601
877-332-1165 Description: Life
size displays recreating the seas of Kansas from 70 million years ago.

Kentucky

Dinosaur World
711 Mammoth Cave Road
Cave City, KY 42127
270-773-4345Description: The dinosaur models, up to eighty feet in length and based on the latest scientific discoveries, are made of fiberglass, steel, and concrete. The dinosaurs are arranged in groups of as many as eleven of a single species, in a variety of settings.

Maryland

Dinosaur Park
13201 Mid-Atlantic Boulevard
Laurel, MD 20708
301-627-7755Description: The park is a unique site in Laurel, Maryland, featuring a rare deposit of fossils from the Early Cretaceous period, about 110 million years ago.

Massachusetts

Beneski Museum of Natural History
11 Barrett Hill Road
Amherst College
Amherst, MA 01002-5000
413-542-2165Description: The museum's Vertebrate Paleontology Collection consists of over 22,000 specimens. All of the major invertebrate groups, from the Precambrian to the Recent, are represented in the Invertebrate Paleontology Collection, numbering about 80,000 specimens.

The Museum of
Comparative Zoology
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
617-495-3045Description: Skull of Triceratops found in
Wyoming. Prehistoric exhibits include a 42-foot Kronosaurus, and a
Mastadon skeleton.

Museum of Science
1 Science Park
Boston, MA 02114
617-723-2500Description: Enjoy the completely remodeled and
revitalized dinosaur hall, with interactive exhibits and hands-on
activities. The T-rex model has also been redesigned according to most
recent data available.

Rock, Fossil, and Dinosaur Shop
213 Greenfield Road
Route 5 & 10
South Deerfield, MA 01373
413-665-7625Description: The Dinosaur Exhibit at the Rock, Fossil, and Dinosaur Shop is FREE and open to the public. See over 25 of your favorite dinosaurs full size and realistic.

Minnesota

Mississippi

Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
2148 Riverside Drive
Jackson, Mississippi 39202-1353
601-576-6000Description: The primary mission of the MMNS Paleontology Collection is to both house and document the spatiotemporal spectrum of prehistoric animal and plant diversity within the state and to make this information available for educational and research purposes.

Montana

Carter
County Museum
100 Main Street-Box 52
Ekalaka, Montana 59324
406-775-6886Description: Dinosaur specimens include a
Pachycephalosaurus and Triceratops skull, as well as a complete
skeleton of a duck-billed Anatosaurus.

Museum of the
Rockies
South 6th Street and Kagy Boulevard
Bozeman, Montana 59717-0040
406-994-2251Description: Full-scale models of Maiasaura and
Triceratops. Also on display is a Tyrannosaurus skeleton.

Two Medicine Dinosaur Center
120 2nd Avenue South
Bynum, MT 59422
406-469-2211Description: The Center houses a wide variety of dinosaur species,
invertebrates, plant fossils, archeological materials, and cultural
items. The research collections include new species of dinosaurs and
other prehistoric life.

University of Nebraska State Museum
307 Morrill Hall
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0338
402-472-2642
Description: More than one million numbered specimens have been added to the collection since 1891 when E. H. Barbour, Director of the Museum from 1891 to 1941, made his first trip to the rich fossil fields of western Nebraska.

Ruth Hall
Museum of PaleontologyGhost
Ranch Conference Center
Abiquiu, New Mexico 87510
505-685-4333Description: Dinosaur displays from the Ghost
Ranch quarry. A large slab of fossil-laden rock is the museum's
centerpiece. The Ghost Ranch site has yielded more than 100 complete
skeletons, which include Coelophysis.

New York

American Museum of Natural
History
Central Park West
New York, New York 10024-5192
212-769-5100Description: The American Museum of Natural
History contains the largest collection of dinosaur fossils of any
museum in the world. Among the museum's displays are the T. rex,
Apatosaurus (formerly Brontosaurus), Stegosaurus and the world's
largest cast skeleton -- a Barosaurus, towering 55 feet above the
museum floor.

North Carolina

North Carolina
Museum of Natural Sciences
11 W. Jones Street
Raleigh, NC 27601-1029
919-733-7450Description: A Tyrannosaurus skull, a cast of an
Archaeopteryx fossil, and a Triceratops skull. Also at the museum is a
fossil lab.

Cleveland Museum of
Natural History
One Wade Oval Dr., University Circle
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-1767
216-231-4600Description: Skull from a Dunkleosteus terrelli
("terrible fish"), a 70-foot-long Haplocanthosaurus delfsi (a sauropod
related to Apatosaurus), and a skull from a Nanotyrannus -- an advanced
carnivore which could be a link between dinosaurs and birds.

Oklahoma

Oklahoma Dinosaur Quarries
Bonnie Heppard
Box 36
Kenton, Oklahoma 73946
405-261-7474Description: The quarries in Cimarron County
have revealed bones from an Apatosaurus, and Ice Age mammals. There are
also Dinosaur tracks on the site.

Oregon

The Academy of Natural
Sciences
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
215-299-1000Description: Several magnificent dinosaur
displays, which reflect current scientific views of these creatures.
Among the displays include a Deinonychus sculpture, a T. rex skeleton,
a Hadrosaurus skeleton and a replica of the recently discovered
Ultrasaurus leg -- 20 feet high! The academy also features
dinosaurvideos.

The Carnegie Museum
of Natural History
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
412-622-3131Description: The Carnegie Museum contains one of
the finest collections of dinosaur fossils in the world. Among the
fossil displays are a 78-foot-long Diplodocus, a Tyrannosaurus rex, an
Apatosaurus, and a Stegosaurus. There are hundreds of additional
fossils, as well as pterosaurs, and Ice Age mammals.

South Carolina State Museum
South Carolina State Museum
301 Gervais Street
Columbia, SC 29201
803-898-4921Description: Fossils from the Cenozoic Era, the last 65-plus million years, are the largest portion of the State Museum's collection. It numbers thousands of specimens from nearly all of the major time periods of the era.

South Dakota

Dinosaur Park
940 Skyline Drive
Rapid City, SD 57702
605 394-4175Description: Dinosaurs represented in the park include Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and an Anatotitan (formerly Trachodon). A Protoceratops and a Dimetrodon (Dimetrodon is not actually a dinosaur) were added later. With the exception of the Protoceratops, the dinosaurs they selected were based on fossils found in South Dakota and the Western United States.

Texas

Big Bend National Park
Texas 79834
915-477-2251Description: Remains of the largest pterosaur --
a Quetzalcoatlus were found at Big Bend 1971. Other paleontological
discoveries continue to be made in this huge National Park.

Dallas Museum of
Natural History
3535 Grand Avenue in Fair Park
Dallas, Texas
214-421-3466Description: The museum features fossils of
Tenontosaurus, several Ice Age mammal fossils, as well as a 31 foot
(9.5 m) Mosasaur --a marine reptile from the Late Cretaceous Period.

Dinosaur
Valley State Park
Glen Rose, Texas
254-897-4588Description: Along the banks of the Paluxy River
are perhaps the most well-known dinosaur tracks in the world. Three
types of tracks can be seen, left behind from large sauropods, two
legged carnivores and smaller two-legged herbivores. There are some
footprints which resemble human footprints, however, these have
determined to be made from smaller, bipedal dinosaurs. (Campsites
available)

Dinosaur
World
1058 Park Road 59
Glen Rose, TX 76043
254-898-1526Description: Life sized models of dinosaurs welcome families and classes to learn, have fun, or just enjoy a quiet encounter with the lifelike animals. Open every day except Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Fort Worth Museum of
Science
and History
1501 Montgomery Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
817-255-9300Description: The dinosaur specimens at the
museum include skeletons of a Tenontosaurus, a dramatic fossil display
of an Allosaurus leaning over its victim, the Camptosaurus. Outside is
the children's Dinosaur Dig playground, which is home to a realistic
model of a Tenontosaurus. Also outside is a very life-like and
ferocious replica of an Acrocanthosaurus.

Robert
A. Vines EnvironmentalScience
Center
8856 Westview Drive
Houston, Texas 77055
713-365-4175Description: An Allosaurus skeleton, Apatosaurus
footprints, and a Tyrannosaurus skull. Also at the center are an
arboretum and bird sanctuary.

Cleveland-Lloyd
Dinosaur Quarry
P.O. Drawer
A.B.Price, Utah 84501
435-637-4584Description: Many fossils, covering several
species of dinosaurs were excavated from this area -- many were
Allosaurus fossils.

College
of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum
155 E. Main
Municipal Building
Price, Utah 84501
435-637-5060Description: Dinosaur displays include an
Allosaurus and a Stegosaurus. The museum also has several dinosaur
footprints.

Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail
Moab, UtahDescription: The trails are self-guided through
an area rich in dinosaur fossils. A brochure obtained at the park
explains what fossils can be seen. Among the specimens in the area are:
Allosaurus, Camptosaurus, and Stegosaurus.

Robert Rowley Dinosaur Tracks
305 South 100 East
Price, Utah 84501
801-637-2340Description: The dinosaur tracks are impressions
which are protruding from the ceiling in the Price River Coal Company
mine in Spring Canyon, west of Helper, Utah. Some of these footprint
"stalactites" hang down the mine ceiling about a foot.

St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at
Johnson Farm
2180 East Riverside drive
St. George, UT 84790
435-574-3466Description: This site is described by many paleontologists as "one of the ten best
dinosaur track sites in the world" and is one of the most important
discoveries in Early Jurassic paleontological history.

Thanksgiving
Point Museum of Ancient Life
3003 N Thanksgiving Way
Lehi, UT 84043Description: Carboniferous
Forest and Cretaceous Ocean exhibits. One of the worlds largest
displays of mounted
dinosaurs with 60 complete dinosaur skeletons, along
with more than 50 hands-on exhibits.

Virginia

Dinosaur Land
3848 Stonewall Jackson Highway
White Post, VA 22663
(540) 869-2222Description: Open for 50 years, this roadside attraction features over 50 dinosaurs.

Virginia Museum of Natural
History
1001 Douglas Avenue
Martinsville, Virginia 24112
540-666-8600Description: Age of Reptiles exhibit, which
includes a robotic Triceratops display, as well as other smaller
dinosaur models. Guided tours to the Culpepper Stone Quarry are
available, allowing a view of dinosaur tracks. Dinosaur Please call for
reservations to tour the quarry.

Burke Museum of
Natural History & Culture
University of Washington, Box 353010
Seattle, WA 98195
206-543-5590Description: The Burke Museum's paleontological collections contain more
than 3 million specimens of fossil invertebrates, vertebrates, plants,
single-celled protists, trace fossils, and modern mollusks. A portion
of these collections is on display in the museum galleries.

Wisconsin

Dinosaur Discovery Museum
5608 10th Ave
Kenosha, WI 53140
262-653-4450Description: The largest display of meat-eating, theropod dinosaurs in the
entire United States. The main gallery tells the story of how non-avian, theropod dinosaurs, like Tyrannosaurus rex and Allosaurus, gave rise to the avian dinosaurs.

Milwaukee Public Museum
800 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233
414-278-2702Description: The museum in Milwaukee has a rare
specimen remains of a Torosaurus -- a relative of Triceratops. The
skull is the world's largest known dinosaur skull. Other fossils
include rare skulls of the head-banging Pachycephalosaurus. There are
also Ice Age mammal exhibits, which include examples of Mastodon hair.

Wyoming

Fossil
Cabin
US30
Medicine Bow, WyomingDescription: The cabin is built of dinosaur bones excavated at nearby
Como Bluff, using a total of 5,796 bones.

Red
Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite
Bureau of Land
Management
Worland Field Office
101 South 23rd Street
Worland, WY 82401
307-347-5100Description: You can imagine yourself walking along an ocean shoreline
167 million years ago with dozens of other dinosaurs.

Wyoming Dinosaur Center
110 Carter Ranch Rd.
P.O. Box 868
Thermopolis, WY, U.S.A. 82443
Phone: (307) 864-2997 or 1-800-455-DINO (3466)Description: The museum
has acquired the most complete archaeopteryx in the world and boasts
skeletons of Triceratops, Stegosaurus and Velociraptor, among others in
all sorts of dynamic poses.

University of Wyoming Geological
Museum
P.O. Box 3006
Laramie, Wyoming 82071-3006
307-766-2646Description: Apatosaurus skeleton, a Maiasaura
skeleton, and a cast of fossilized dinosaur skin. Outside the museum is
a copper sculpture of a T. rex.